Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Gangs That Inherited Pablo Escobar"s Drug Empire: Cooking with Cocaine [Video Doc]




In Colombia, the heirs to Pablo Escobar’s drug empire are conducting business as usual — though with a somewhat lower profile. Today’s Medellin drug cartels are highly structured and run much like multinational corporations. But violent gangs operating in the city’s slums provide the muscle; known as combos, they’ve carved Medellin into fiefdoms, imposing invisible borders between gang territory — borders that, when ignored, often get people killed.





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VICE News travelled to Medellin to meet gang members — along with top cartel leaders and assassins — who revealed the inner workings of the city’s modern-day cocaine industry.




Gangs That Inherited Pablo Escobar"s Drug Empire: Cooking with Cocaine [Video Doc]

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